tarion assistance program it comes as saudi arabia pledges one hundred million dollars to syria and reconstruction efforts however the money will only go to the northeast of syria region under the control of u.s. backed kurdish forces and while some programs are cut others remain in place with the u.s. saying it will stay in syria for some time yet to battle the last pockets of terrorists we remaining in syria the focus is the ensuring defeat of isis we still have not launched the final phase to defeat the physical caliphate this is actually being prepared now and that will come at a time for choosing but it is coming joshua landis head of middle east studies at the university of oklahoma says america's interest in the thirty year go far beyond elimination of terrorists. the united states does not want a side to become too strong they are hoping to keep leverage in order to try to

push iran out of the country to get a better deal for the kurds and and of course they're also worried about what's going to happen if their province where there is very complex negotiations and russia is at the heart of them so there are many competing agendas in washington and as long as president trump is not spending a lot of money there i think he's happy to keep a few thousand troops if that increases america's leverage. the u.s. department of defense is planning to spend up to fifteen million dollars and hunting the performance and interior and savage solace that has caleb maupin explains history shows such programs have to be hung out with cat. actually did. hollywood science fiction often depicts the soldiers of the future with all the talk of us base course from donald trump and fighting robots across

the silver screen our imagination has plenty of places to go. now on the surface a new grant from the pentagon for extramural biomedical research and development doesn't sound so bad the object is to create soldiers who can withstand even the harshest circumstances take a listen develop technologies to maximize the physiological performance of s.o.f. operators including enhanced in durance enhanced senses tolerance to environmental extremes and enhanced overall fitness in order to maintain operational posture ability in high stress scenarios without noticeable augmentation and without hampering personnel mobility. additionally the ability to accelerate the effects of sleep through methods requiring less time a vivid picture i know the prototype. piece.

now let's give this a little context this won't be the first time that the u.s. military has engaged in this kind of research. with. something new. something.

now at the time these grotesque experiments using american g.i.'s and civilians essentially as lab rats at the time they were taking place the public knew nothing about it was all classified now the public documents indicate that these new experiments will not involve human beings only human simulators however anyone who is familiar with the not so well publicized but very well documented history of u.s. military research they'll certainly raise an eyebrow caleb up and r.t. new york. graffiti has been a pairing in the spanish city of boss alona encouraging holiday makers to jump off the hotel balconies some of it suggests that the potentially deadly practice known as balcony is fun one of the cliff e.t. messages mockingly claims it improves the quality. sea of life for locals balcony encounter refer either to jumping into a pool from about kony or climbing from one balcony to another the risky activity

is growing in popularity with tourists some hotels have banned it and introduced fines. to. the balcony and graffiti that sprung up in barcelona has sparked online anger with people pointing out that this is to get a loan six people have died performing the stunt most of them are from britain or ireland the u.k. foreign office has warned against engaging in the practice and the majority of accidents victims have been drunk and lost their balance we got reaction from tourists in barcelona. thankfully i have seen where we've begun to post so

i am out of my secret then there is no sir like many messages very violent like you against terrorists i guess the same in them like they want to have the city for over and they know it's important to maintain jobs to make some money out of tourists ergo i think this is some kind of tax why can i have this many tourists trying to yawn that it's not comfortable for them have the inhabitants of mrs rowles they seem less nice to see me that's just so open and do so much and they should be accepting. koreans for most students aggressive things there isn't this it's the main source of anything. but nothing and i think it's just. a nice image that's if i would live here and i would see the guys in my city. hall style sometimes as though it was still to come russia has

a faint dish plan to stop us democracy according to a new american force more details on that off this short break stay with us. when else chose seemed wrong why don't we all just don't call. me lol but yet to shape our disdain he comes out ahead and in against me because betrayal. when so many find themselves worlds apart we choose to look for common ground. what holds if you should. put themselves on the line. to get accepted or rejected.

so when you want to present. yourself wanted. to write. this is what. are you. interested. welcome back well russia is at it again and that's the claim in an article in the u.s. magazine the atlantic is those the kremlin has set its sights firmly on meddling in the upcoming midterm elections with russia's objective being see a weakened america the article goes on to explain moscow's alleged three step plan

to break american democracy first unleashed russian hackers second by corrupt u.s. politicians and third support those who think favorably of putin but it's not just the russian states that's come under suspicion the atlantic also claims this very channel helps undermine democracy by inviting on guests who dare to question mainstream narratives the magazine names brandon straka as an example he's the founder of a movement encouraging democrats to walk away from their party though the atlantic fails to point out he talks to other media outlets to. well i myself was a lifelong liberal democratic voter i would say kind of a democrat by default because i'm a gay man and i think that the expectation for a lot of minority groups is that we are supposed to vote democrat and that we are supposed to be liberals brenda's drake is spent years as

a liberal he now says he's concerned by what the left has become well before the election i was already starting to feel uncomfortable with where we were headed in terms of identity politics and p.c. culture. but it's a cool commentator line on xplained what he thinks is behind anti russian articles like the atlantic. nobody ever calls these people to task they are paid for by volume or how many likes to do you get how many clicks hey that was a great article factually incorrect. factually based list and also the mentality just feeding frenzy of does this mind this more this monster that you must feed constantly with there's no rush or no nato no bad guy no bogeyman so there's many reasons why the book even the strawman the specter the evil image of russia must be maintained. occupy london

appears to be the latest victim of facebook's recent spree of shutting down accounts the social justice movement had his page taken down for several hours the movement say's this is not the first time facebook has tried to censor its content occupy london was founded in two thousand and eleven is part of a global movement organizing hundreds of protests against financial elite the movement say its founding values are equality and diversity occupy london has a significant social media presence with around one hundred fifty thousand followers on facebook some believe certain pro palestine posts by occupy london might be to blame for facebook's action we asked facebook to comment the social media giant has since apologized to occupy london saying it was all a mistake but it's one of the movement's activist george barda isn't convinced.

just you know sort of a blip a mistake out of the blue it probably wouldn't mean very much at all but the problem is this is part of a massive rear guard action i think by the establishment you know anyone can go online and see the evidence this themselves chris hedges is a pulitzer prize winning journalist it's been one of those exposing most of the details of this but effectively what's happening in the name of dealing with fake news and many progressive websites that have been a major part of you know bernie sanders jeremy corbyn etc. they used they found the traffic going down. websites like alter net truthdig that you know mainstream progressive websites are seeing that traffic played down by seventy percent literally and these are algorithms devised in private nobody can inspect and have a huge impact on what information the world gets to see about what's going on and that's a hugely significant issue going forward the relevant thing today in terms of discussion is still a very powerful force online and has millions of people engaging with its posts and

so it's very important that they and others like them on not in the name if they can use effectively removed from most people's internet searches and i think this is a huge issue going forward bearing in mind that google and facebook are very very close to the american establishment you know the washington post is owned by jeff bezos he was and is an answer but not surprisingly he's very keen on using the washington post to make sure that the internet allows his articles to come up at the top of such as an aunt. maria boots you know the gun activist who's been charged with acting as an unregistered russian agent in the u.s. has launched a crowdfunding campaign to pay for her legal defense much of the media coverage around her arrest which came just after the trial putin summit in how think he saw her branded a russian spy moskos compared to tina's treatment in custody and the media hysteria around the case to the witch trials of the seventy's. century on thursday the

russian embassy in the u.s. accused the local authorities of subjecting buton or to cruel and inhumane treatment including strip searches bounce off the russian diplomats visited her in prison and found her health had deteriorated there demanding the u.s. state department stops psychologically pressuring and humiliating maria and stressed she's still a suspect and not a convict so america can takes up the story. maria was taken into custody about a month ago accused of acting as a russian agent and quote developing relationships with u.s. persons and infiltrating organizations having influence in american politics now if she's convicted she could face up to fifteen years in prison and now the russian embassy has issued a statement comparing it to the salem witch trials and accusing us of dorothy's of subjecting her to cruel and inhumane treatment including night checks every fifteen minutes something that's only done to prisoners who have a history of suicide strip searches after visits she's being denied medical care

she had a swelling on her leg as a result of cold temperatures in her cell and she's only been given pain killers now she's walking with a limp she's also not allowed outdoor walks and she can't receive any letters in russian apparently because they might contain coded messages for some background after she pled not guilty if she was denied bail and her attorney thinks her nationality might have had something to do with it i'm hesitating to say it's completely apolitical we think it's hard to imagine a national another country would be treated the same way i think we're a little bit of a russian phobic time here in the country the media might be using language like spy an espionage but her lawyer says that those words can't be found in any legal documents and that she's never done any military related work and there was no classified information involved now to sum it all up she's basically been accused of lobbying and somehow the u.s. sees it as connected to russia gate she's also accused of trading sex for influence

but there's been no evidence at all to substantiate those claims but what's interesting about her is that she's always supported improving u.s. russian relations and she's pretty open about this it also should be noted that she was arrested hours after the trumpeting summit in helsinki but now she's waiting for trial the date of which is still unknown but what we do know is that the next technical hearing is scheduled for september tenth but most evidence against her is . still classified so we're just going to have to wait and see how this case unfolds we spoke to human rights lawyer down kovalchuk about the case now she's being treated as a violation of the u.s. law the u.s. constitution which for bids cruel and unusual punishment in also violates international law there's so much anti russian sentiment because while she is not being accused of being a spy that really is how it's being played in the media and so i'm not sure she's going to get much of an audience in washington for her concerns she may have to go

to an international body for that the fact is a lot of mischief can be done before or if ever the harm being done to her as correct clearly there's people in washington who want to be rail any chances of a detente with russia and i think the timing asked to be taken into account and it may be some indication of a political motive to make it impossible for the two countries to reach some sort of you know peace with one other thanks for chasing our tail and to national we'll be back at the top of the hour with the latest. it.

it it to it. when a loved one is murder it's natural to seek the death penalty for the murder i would prefer and it's meaningless in the death penalty just because i think that's the fair thing the right thing research shows that for every nine executions one convict is found innocent the idea that we were executing innocent people is terrifying the is just no way that doesn't mean that we're even many victims'

families want the death penalty to be abolished the reason we have to keep to get pell here is because that's what murder victims' families what that's going to give them peace that's going to give them justice and we come in and say. not quite enough we've been through this this isn't the way. i didn't plan on little. green. we going to avoid a ship would rush to tell me i didn't leave that's all meant sincerely displaced persons that believe that there were recently from clashes that have been.

a lot of good people separate across front lines and they can cross the front line a lot of the people that fled without knowing where it has been where the trail of the child or dead mother is. where they are were even if they were captured over there are alive most of the times we live with a load to look for them it's very difficult actually i read if i families. that. have done so we've got three such phones because if you were going to get out of the jacket it will be a ten dollars that will make it short three minutes per person so why do we have the most people possible can be able to make a phone call and or if you don't manage today tomorrow we coming back with a team all day again and you'll be able to make phone calls tomorrow too for those who couldn't today and only four million years to hear from is right well on the

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